“equal protection can only be defined by the standards of each generation.”
– the Iowa Supreme Court, Varnum et al v. Brien 04/03/2009 p 16
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Iowa’s marriage law (which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman) violates the state constitution’s “equal protection” clause. The unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court orders the state to begin allowing homosexuals to marry starting in three weeks.
So, each generation gets to define its own version of law and morality?
How’s that working out?
You all do realize that the 20th century was the bloodiest century in all of human history, don’t you?
Moral relativism is a recent development. It is unsustainable. It is logically incoherent.
Thankfully, the court did acknowledge another fundamental political reality:
“While the constitution is the supreme law and cannot be altered by the enactment of an ordinary statute, the power of the constitution flows from the people, and the people of Iowa retain the ultimate power to shape it over time.”
The people of Iowa retain the same ability to correct its Supreme Court’s assault on marriage which was available to the people of California.
Will they do so?
I am quite surprised that you, Mr. Shearer, a man of integrity, would post such a disrespectful picture on a blog for all of your students to see. I am very surprised.
The picture is disrespectful not only to the supreme court’s of Iowa, California, and Massachusetts but also to The Village People.
I have, and continue to thoroughly enjoy reading your posts… but posting a picture like this is something that I wouldn’t anticipate a respectful pundit like yourself capable of doing.
That being said… the picture is of course funny… but seriously disrespectful and non-academic in nature.
I doubt the village people mind…
Haha. Still…